Bureau Zhou said with a pale face.
I asked, “When did this happen?”
“Just half an hour before you came here. I knew that your detachment had been taken over by Xiao Wu’s people right away, and I was afraid they might think of Xu Changsheng’s case, so I tried to get a copy of the file out, only to find that it had disappeared.”
Liu Hao hurriedly opened Zhou Bureau’s filing cabinet to see that there were only a few file bags containing other materials inside.
“I’ll call the reconnaissance team right away, maybe there are still the fingerprints of the person who stole something here.” Liu Hao was anxious.
I stopped Liu Hao: “No, don’t call them. If this matter goes too far, Zhou Bureau will definitely be implicated if he loses his file.”
Liu Hao tapped his head: “I was in such a hurry that I forgot about this. Why do I feel that someone is trying to frame me and then now they are coming to frame Zhou Bureau, this could be the same person.”
I shook my head, “No, I rather think there’s a conflict.”
Liu Hao looked at me blearily and I thought to myself, “He must be very good at fighting, he became this captain with his two bladders, he must also have a very good advisor under his hand, maybe that vice captain of his has a good brain, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to see even such a simple conflict.
I said, “The Xu Changsheng case, which was used to frame you and Xia Gehuai, Xu Changsheng was an undeserved disaster. Who would be best served if that dossier disappeared?”
Zhou Bureau pointed at Liu Hao and said, “Of course it’s in your best interest.”
“But I didn’t take it… It’s here with Old Zhou, what am I taking it for? I’m still silently investigating this case.” Liu Hao was busy waving his hand and said.
Zhou Bureau also said, “Xiao Zhang, I also think it can’t be Liu Hao who took it, moreover, when the file disappeared, you two were not always together.”
“I didn’t mean that. It would be in his best interest for the dossier to disappear, but we all believe he was wrongly accused, and he would make himself suspicious if he still hid the dossier. But it’s in your best interest for the dossier to disappear, so it’s unlikely that this was done by the same group of people. It’s like what Team Liu just said, harming him and then harming you, but the act of harming you is what saved him, so it can’t be done by the same person.”
Bureau Zhou nodded thoughtfully and seriously.
Liu Hao said, “But who exactly would steal the dossier?”
I asked, “Have you seen the surveillance yet?”
“The surveillance just happened to be broken.” Zhou Bureau said.
I wasn’t surprised, but if it wasn’t broken, then I was surprised.
“It’s been broken for two or three days.”
“Okay, then the perpetrator can basically be pinpointed to this office building. We can also narrow it down to someone who frequents this floor, or someone from the security section. Ordinary people won’t notice when this surveillance is broken, let’s have someone look for it, maybe the file is still on him.”
After listening to my analysis, Liu Hao sighed, “Zhang Chao, I’m really convinced of you now, just a little clue, you actually you analyze so much.”
Zhou also smiled and said, “I knew that the old chief’s senior disciple must be very capable. Little Liu, you should learn from him.”
“Yes!” Liu Hao saluted and said to Bureau Zhou.
This matter could be investigated, but not in a big way.
Zhao Zichen, who couldn’t enter Bureau Zhou’s office because of his status, had been waiting for us at the bottom of the building and got tired of waiting, so he called to ask me what was going on.
I couldn’t tell him such a secret matter in front of Bureau Zhou, so I had to ask him to wait a little longer.
“Guess who I saw? Zheng Peng.”
“What’s he doing here?”
“What could be good, I’ll go and meet him.”
After saying that, Zhao Zichen hung up the phone.
After finding two of his inner circle, Bureau Zhou got all the suspicious people and asked them, as he couldn’t search everyone directly. Unfortunately, when the crime happened, surprisingly everyone had an alibi, which was embarrassing.
Especially when asked about an auntie who did hygiene, the auntie thought she had lost something valuable and panicked, and started to empty her pockets herself: “Bureau Zhou, I’ve been doing hygiene for so many years and have always been clean, I won’t take your things, everyone in the building knows that.”
Zhou asked, “Then have you seen anyone going in and out of my office?”
“God, the conscience of heaven and earth, Zhou Bureau, I really did not go in and out of your office. If you don’t believe me, ask someone, I’m always outside doing hygiene, and your office is always locked.”
Zhou just casually asked, but to his surprise, this aunt was so scared that she sat down on her butt and started crying.
After a while, some people came to open the door to see what was going on, but Zhou glared at them.
Liu Hao frowned and said, “What are you afraid of if you didn’t do it?”
“Heaven and earth, I’m not afraid, I’m anxious, how can you spit out blood, do you want to make a wrongful case?”
I patted Liu Hao’s shoulder and told him to stop, the more he talked, the more confusing it was.
“Auntie, are you sure you didn’t see anyone going in or out of this office?”
“No one really went in or out, and neither did I.” She said as she patted her chest.
I laughed, “I know, you don’t look like the type of person who does this sort of thing, and to have been here for so many years, you must have clean hands and feet, who would dare to have unclean hands and feet in the criminal police brigade? But how can you be sure that no one is going in or out?”
“I finished my work and have been sitting across the street taking a break, right across from Bureau Zhou’s office, how could I not have seen it? Even if I was looking at my phone, I still knew someone was coming in and out, right? No one has been in this room since Director Zhou went out, and then Bureau Zhou came in.”
After hearing what Auntie said, Liu Hao and I were both dumbfounded. No one had come in, so could it be that the file had been stolen a long time ago?
In front of Auntie, we couldn’t ask questions, so we let Auntie go out. Before Auntie left, she kept emphasizing that she really didn’t take anything.
Liu Hao closed the door and muttered, “I don’t feel right, how this aunt has a feeling of being a thief.”
I asked again, “Zhou Bureau, when was the last time you looked at the file?”
He thought for a moment, “This cabinet holds important files, I just opened it this morning and looked at it, the stuff was inside, someone must have taken it away in the last half hour. This aunt is suspicious.”
Liu Hao nodded in agreement, the auntie’s reaction was indeed a bit perverse, but her confession made me believe her words instead.
If she really did take the stuff, then there was no need for her to bite the bullet and say that no one had been in or out, she could have just graciously said that she didn’t know about it.
How could she have been staring at a door when she was doing hygiene? But I believed her when she said that she couldn’t take it out herself.
